What? One of those posts was about the article, one was about WoW, the other two were made after I posted in this thread. This is the first thread where I've talked to anyone about the state of SC's development.
There's four separate SC threads, but that's fine as I didn't check timestamps. I was sure I had seen you post more about it before though, so I must of confused your name with someone else. Apologies.
The LGTB harassment that went unpunished for months, the death threats in chat during CitizenCon, the mods on the official site that banning anyone that even whispers "development hell". Hell, there are people in this thread in denial about the game being in development for four years despite Christ Roberts himself literally saying the opposite.
Sounds like standard gamer bullshit to me which is prevalent throughout most of the net and is something that you could apply to almost any forum or fanbase.
I didn't know about the LGBT thing, which sucks, but again it's not exclusive to SC. I would agree that it's toxic, but as you just said "it went on for months" - meaning it stopped? A toxic community doesn't put a stop to toxic behaviour, like SC's community obviously did.
Death threats? Again, typical gamer bullshit that both sides of this coin have experienced. That's no excuse though and is abhorrent either way but did you not see the toxic behaviour of the detractors too?
I don't post on the official forums so the "development hell" threads being banned is news to me, but totally unsurprising as there are WEEKLY updates that show the development process and progress. It's obviously a forum rule so why is that toxic?
Star Citizen started development in 2011? That was the demo leading up to GDC. Period. Development of Star Citizen as we know it didn't start until December 2012 after the crowd funding campaign finished.
Pillars of Eternity, Elite: Dangerous, Broken Age just to name a few--all well-managed crowdfunded projects that delivered most, if not all their goals.
You realize that SC is a totally different beast than those games and it is still in active development, right?
And yet Star Citizen keeps promising more and more without delivering anything. Arena Commander is still buggy as hell on top of missing a ton of features. Hangars still haven't been integrated. The social module is a walking simulator. FPS missed all three of its deadlines and has now been delayed indefinitely. The PU has been delayed indefinitely. Multi-crew has been delayed indefinitely. And none of it looks anywhere close to being ready. I had no conceived notion of this game's development because of it's crowdfunded status, claiming that is absurd. But it's clear that this game has been greatly mismanaged. Scope isn't an excuse; the core of this game should be working by now, but it isn't.
You've already made up your mind about the state of things regardless of actual progress made. You refuse to see how far they've come. You want to remain willfully ignorant about it.
I feel very confident in saying that SC with it's current feature list will never be released. At best, you'll get a watered down version missing most of it's features--exactly what happened with Freespace. At worst, the game will be cancelled entirely.
I'm confident that you're talking out of your ass, but time will tell won't it? And if it does releases with all features what then? You still going to maintain this negative spin?
